Monday, April 22, is Earth Day and Riverside Transit Agency is taking its message on the road to Mt. San Jacinto College in San Jacinto from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Monday and to other transit

centers in the western county.

Mt. San Jacinto students already get free bus ride passes (they pay a $6 a semester fee), but other bus riders who show up at the college bus stop from 9 to 9:45 a.m. Monday will be able to spin a prize wheel for a chance to win passes and other prizes.

The college stop is in the north parking lot off State Street.

RTA wants to bring more awareness to public transit’s role in improving air quality and to thank customers, according to a news release.

Customers who sign up for i-Alerts or “like” RTA on Facebook on April 22 will be automatically entered into a drawing for a free 30-day pass.

If you visit the college location during that time you also might meet representatives of the Hemet-San Jacinto Area Transportation-NOW chapter (T-NOW) which promoting and expanding public transit alternatives in western Riverside County.

RTA staff will be at the Temecula Promenade Mall (6-6:30 a.m.,) Mt. San Jacinto College in San Jacinto, Perris Station Transit Center (7:30-8 a.m.,) Moreno Valley Mall Transfer Center (11-11:45 a.m.,) Riverside Downtown Terminal (1:30-2 p.m.) and Corona Transit Center (3:45-4:35 p.m.) on Monday, April 22, with refreshments, giveaways and a limited number of bus passes.

If you want to learn more about the T-NOW group, the next meeting is at 11:30 a.m. May 8 at the San Jacinto Community Center, 625 S. Pico Ave. The meeting agenda has not been sent out yet, but one topic that had been proposed was inviting a Caltrans representative to the meeting to talk about highway speed limits and Caltrans procedures for getting the limits changed.

Hemet City Council member Linda Krupa is chairwoman of the T-NOW chapter.